I will add that I see lots of trees planted. 1000's of newly planted (within last few years) trees of all sizes. It's in District Tongzhou where I live, in urban areas. There is also word that China will redeploy 50K soldiers to plant trees this year. So low hanging fruit yes, but also serious efforts as far as I can see. It's about my only wish for China - is to clean the air, everyone will benefit.
As someone living here, I have to say that I do see more blue sky and less haze than I used to. My phone displays the Air Quality Index and today it is bad - mid 200s. There used to be 400 days but they do *seem* fewer. Tomorrow is 12 and friday is 39. Because the government is all powerful, they shut down 1000s of polluting businesses in Beijing and put in place requirements that made it hard for them to return to business unless they cleaned up their emissions. Of course there are complaints, but Chinese like Americans complain about government, but the Chinese mostly move on as recourse is limited and they know it. I am limiting my stay here (one year) because of the pollution, but I may waver in that. That is, waver tomorrow, but not today.
I have an old $5 in my wallet, will be fun to do. The enjoyment I get out of doing this is easily worth $5. The bank listed "important reasons". I call BS on each one. - Reduced lifespan, so what? It is being replaced anyway. - It might be rejected in a transaction. Lame, someone else will take it. Its only $5 - Source of national pride. Really? My guess is half of Canadians have never heard of him or know he was the PM. Checked my wallet, there is an old $5, jackpot! I am feeling more Canadian pride in doing this on a Canadian bill then... putting maple syrup on my bacon.
As a fellow geek I took to bookbinding in the late 90s to balance out the high tech I was involved in. I'd recommend you get a custom blank book made for your daughter. A few of your words written down in the book will be a source of comfort and joy that will last a lifetime. Years later people come to me and tell me that they are keeping track of things, using it in some way that makes me feel lucky to be a part of their lives. Your daughter will write things and draw things in this book and it will be something from you that she will treasure. You can get it personalized it some meaningful way. For my nieces and nephews, I have found their favorite colour, animal, a favorite shirt, and made it from that. In my own journals I will draw an outline of the hand, and you could do that your in the book to her. In our high tech world, something physical like a book is a good thing. Best wishes.
I remember reading a bio of James Doohan when he died. My esteem went up for him greatly when I read that he was a WW2 vet. Born in Vancouver (woohoo!) and led a group of men at Juno beach on D-Day taking a few bullets in the process. The world seemed a little bit colder to me when I heard that he died. Fare thee well James.
The american chestnut tree once covered 25% of america. (see wikikpedia for a good background, its a story I am fascinated about). There are numerous attempts to overcome the blight that kills them. What does work now, but cannot be supported for large forests is: dirt. For some reason I feel like planting a garden this year.
Well, if someone were to simply use the "man in the moon" image as their earth bound corporate logo, then the work of putting that on the moon has already been done. Of course there could a prior use argument here about using that logo.
I was hoping someone would tell more info, so went looking. The manuscript is owned by a Baltimore, MD art museum. Some of it is on display there and you have access to the manuscript because you "...may turn on an ultra-violet light on one of the leaves of the book." and see hidden text. There is lots (by no means complete) information there.
I had not heard of the series Firefly and a friend highly recommended it so I obliged and borrowed the DVD. I plugged it in and it became a hit with me and my three kids. It is now a favorite, we all became hooked.
We loved the surprises and twists of the series and the trailer had some hints of it. We loved the gritty nature and the "western" feel. Can't afford fancy kick ass laser guns? Use regular 19th century handguns. Works for me. Do I use a scientific magnifying glass to look for blunders? No. I just sit back and enjoy and don't give a rats ass about that - leave that to others.
The mix of future and contemporary, sci-fi and western, redneckness and intelligence and humor and seriousness captivated me. Bring on the movie. A little breath of fresh air in the glut of shows that pass for TV entertainment.
I plan on watching the series late september and then checking out the movie. Will wait.
I was visiting a special collections recently and they had letters from Kipling, T.E Lawrence and Einstein. There is nothing quite like the feeling of touching such documents (with white gloves of course). Reading an email of someone, like Feynman, would not be as interesting as a letter. Nevertheless, I am glad that they are doing this, it is better then not having such information. But something is lost when its not on paper.
I will be quite interested to see how debugging goes. I have always enjoyed finding such problems myself and the added bonus of it being on Mars makes it that much more interesting. This is quite different from the old Apollo days. Good luck NASA and I am praying to the byte god for you.
I can see 4 guys going up a ski lift, wired together as a mini lan playing doom3 or listening to mp3s. I see them skiing down the slope implementing a wireless and having some kind of spy like hunt and destroy game. I can see gps being used to locate them when an avalanche gets them. The only problem I see skiing are are trees.
What I wonder is if we could tie micropayments to receiving email AND preventing spam. I would go for that, it would work like this: 1. I only receive email from email addresses that I pick. 2. All others have to pay me a micropayment. This would *really* cut back on spam one would get.
I didn't want to put up the link to the full image - I figured the smaller jpegs most people would be interested in anyways. I was in no tizzy, but this is slashdot, so someone was in such a tizzy to tell someone they suck they didn't actually speak to the poster first.
After sitting behind a desk for fifteen years I decided to see if I could still do physical work. I am working up in northern Canada in the oil patch. The area is a sour gas field and one mistake can kill you. It is hard on an old man and hours are long but there is a satisfaction. I won't do this forever and can always go back to software development. Life is too short and varied for being a one trick pony.
I enjoyed the companionship and humor of other software developers and now enjoy the companionship and humor of oil patch workers. The work can be dirty, long, hard and physical. Cracking the "greenie" label and being accepted by the rough and tumble crowd is satisfying. Its not for everyone, I don't know where I'll go next but I am not afraid to try. And besides I hear some great new jokes and sayings like "...that lease is so far fucking north they have to truck in sunshine!"
One can read the "Northwest Passage" and be amazed at early artic explorers. The drive they had is nothing new, its been around for centuries. We are doing that today in different ways as this articles points out. They explored new lands which is essentially what we are doing today only the landscapes have changed.
I have had digital cameras for almost 5 years now and have shot over 16000 of pictures, taking up about 2.5gig. I have a P70 canon right now and am looking to get a new camera. I am serious in an amateur way about photography so your mileage may very. My experiences and wants:
Don't be fooled by "digital zoom" - optical is the key and you will love optical zooms.
optics do play an important role, and you pay for good optics (hence the price difference)
battery life - definitely rechargable.
next shot delay - how long between pix does it take the camera to get ready. Mine is slow and its irratating.
make sure you get something other then serial port downloading. (ie firewire, usb or I got an ImageMate CompactFlash reader - fast)
I miss the control of my SLR, the next camera I get will have more then just auto programs.
the more megas the better, try and get a step higher then you can afford. My massive 1.2 mega pixel 4 years ago is dinky today. Am glad I did not get something much smaller back then.
take lots and lots of pix - you are bound to get a few jewels if you shot lots. My rule of thumb for my SLR was 1-2 great shots in a 24 pix roll.
small cameras are easy to carry, but I like something substantial to hold on to.
digital cameras allow you to experiment and I let my kids go nuts with it!
So how much saving over film & developing charges? Well, 16000 pix / 24 pix = 666 (!) rolls of film. 666*$10 film & develop charges = $6,600. Thats the minimum it would have cost! And I probably shot at least two to three times that and tossed out the crap.
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I will add that I see lots of trees planted. 1000's of newly planted (within last few years) trees of all sizes. It's in District Tongzhou where I live, in urban areas. There is also word that China will redeploy 50K soldiers to plant trees this year. So low hanging fruit yes, but also serious efforts as far as I can see.
It's about my only wish for China - is to clean the air, everyone will benefit.
I did not know that Beijing was China, thanks.
Complaints about the harsh closure of many businesses (many factories) in Beijing (not China).
As someone living here, I have to say that I do see more blue sky and less haze than I used to.
My phone displays the Air Quality Index and today it is bad - mid 200s. There used to be 400 days but they do *seem* fewer. Tomorrow is 12 and friday is 39.
Because the government is all powerful, they shut down 1000s of polluting businesses in Beijing and put in place requirements that made it hard for them to return to business unless they cleaned up their emissions. Of course there are complaints, but Chinese like Americans complain about government, but the Chinese mostly move on as recourse is limited and they know it.
I am limiting my stay here (one year) because of the pollution, but I may waver in that. That is, waver tomorrow, but not today.
I have an old $5 in my wallet, will be fun to do. The enjoyment I get out of doing this is easily worth $5. ... putting maple syrup on my bacon.
The bank listed "important reasons". I call BS on each one.
- Reduced lifespan, so what? It is being replaced anyway.
- It might be rejected in a transaction. Lame, someone else will take it. Its only $5
- Source of national pride. Really? My guess is half of Canadians have never heard of him or know he was the PM.
Checked my wallet, there is an old $5, jackpot! I am feeling more Canadian pride in doing this on a Canadian bill then
As a fellow geek I took to bookbinding in the late 90s to balance out the high tech I was involved in. I'd recommend you get a custom blank book made for your daughter. A few of your words written down in the book will be a source of comfort and joy that will last a lifetime. Years later people come to me and tell me that they are keeping track of things, using it in some way that makes me feel lucky to be a part of their lives. Your daughter will write things and draw things in this book and it will be something from you that she will treasure. You can get it personalized it some meaningful way. For my nieces and nephews, I have found their favorite colour, animal, a favorite shirt, and made it from that. In my own journals I will draw an outline of the hand, and you could do that your in the book to her. In our high tech world, something physical like a book is a good thing. Best wishes.
http://www.google.ca/search?q=how+to+disappear
http://www.amazon.ca/How-Disappear-Digital-Footprint-without/dp/1599219778
thats how i'd start.
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Well now, my '64 fury is up for rent, by the hour.
I remember reading a bio of James Doohan when he died. My esteem went up for him greatly when I read that he was a WW2 vet. Born in Vancouver (woohoo!) and led a group of men at Juno beach on D-Day taking a few bullets in the process. The world seemed a little bit colder to me when I heard that he died. Fare thee well James.
The american chestnut tree once covered 25% of america. (see wikikpedia for a good background, its a story I am fascinated about). There are numerous attempts to overcome the blight that kills them. What does work now, but cannot be supported for large forests is: dirt. For some reason I feel like planting a garden this year.
I think you are missing the the really most important point of all this. How can I get a job there?
Well, if someone were to simply use the "man in the moon" image as their earth bound corporate logo, then the work of putting that on the moon has already been done. Of course there could a prior use argument here about using that logo.
spycounterspy is mirrored at: http://www.rogerpbrown.com/spy/home.html
ps You can register for acquiring this plant on their site! Can't wait...
I was hoping someone would tell more info, so went looking. The manuscript is owned by a Baltimore, MD art museum. Some of it is on display there and you have access to the manuscript because you "...may turn on an ultra-violet light on one of the leaves of the book." and see hidden text. There is lots (by no means complete) information there.
I had not heard of the series Firefly and a friend highly recommended it so I obliged and borrowed the DVD. I plugged it in and it became a hit with me and my three kids. It is now a favorite, we all became hooked.
We loved the surprises and twists of the series and the trailer had some hints of it. We loved the gritty nature and the "western" feel. Can't afford fancy kick ass laser guns? Use regular 19th century handguns. Works for me. Do I use a scientific magnifying glass to look for blunders? No. I just sit back and enjoy and don't give a rats ass about that - leave that to others.
The mix of future and contemporary, sci-fi and western, redneckness and intelligence and humor and seriousness captivated me. Bring on the movie. A little breath of fresh air in the glut of shows that pass for TV entertainment.
I plan on watching the series late september and then checking out the movie. Will wait.
I was visiting a special collections recently and they had letters from Kipling, T.E Lawrence and Einstein. There is nothing quite like the feeling of touching such documents (with white gloves of course). Reading an email of someone, like Feynman, would not be as interesting as a letter. Nevertheless, I am glad that they are doing this, it is better then not having such information. But something is lost when its not on paper.
Write a letter to mom.
I will be quite interested to see how debugging goes. I have always enjoyed finding such problems myself and the added bonus of it being on Mars makes it that much more interesting. This is quite different from the old Apollo days. Good luck NASA and I am praying to the byte god for you.
I can see 4 guys going up a ski lift, wired together as a mini lan playing doom3 or listening to mp3s. I see them skiing down the slope implementing a wireless and having some kind of spy like hunt and destroy game. I can see gps being used to locate them when an avalanche gets them. The only problem I see skiing are are trees.
What I wonder is if we could tie micropayments to receiving email AND preventing spam. I would go for that, it would work like this:
1. I only receive email from email addresses that I pick.
2. All others have to pay me a micropayment.
This would *really* cut back on spam one would get.
I didn't want to put up the link to the full image - I figured the smaller jpegs most people would be interested in anyways. I was in no tizzy, but this is slashdot, so someone was in such a tizzy to tell someone they suck they didn't actually speak to the poster first.
I went and took a look at mp3s4free.net and I get a page that looks awfully a lot like my home page? Funny...
:)
Tracing route to mp3s4free.net [127.0.0.1]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms trident [127.0.0.1]
Go figure...
well, what about
pr0xy av01dance
start something new. ummm, i guess something old.
I enjoyed the companionship and humor of other software developers and now enjoy the companionship and humor of oil patch workers. The work can be dirty, long, hard and physical. Cracking the "greenie" label and being accepted by the rough and tumble crowd is satisfying. Its not for everyone, I don't know where I'll go next but I am not afraid to try. And besides I hear some great new jokes and sayings like "...that lease is so far fucking north they have to truck in sunshine!"
One can read the "Northwest Passage" and be amazed at early artic explorers. The drive they had is nothing new, its been around for centuries. We are doing that today in different ways as this articles points out. They explored new lands which is essentially what we are doing today only the landscapes have changed.
So how much saving over film & developing charges? Well, 16000 pix / 24 pix = 666 (!) rolls of film. 666*$10 film & develop charges = $6,600. Thats the minimum it would have cost! And I probably shot at least two to three times that and tossed out the crap.